PLEASANT RIDGE — Since she moved in 45 years ago, Becky Uber has inherited heirlooms and “five houses of furniture” on top of treasures she found on her own up north and through her former restoration business called The Butterfly Shop.

This weekend it is time for her three-story colonial to go through a metamorphosis.

Uber cleaned her attic and is hauling all kinds of toys, household items, porcelain figurines, jewelry and furniture to the city’s recreation center for the first antique sale to benefit the Pleasant Ridge Historical Commission.

A past president of the commission, Uber said the sale that opens with a special preview at 6 p.m. Friday will be a good opportunity for treasure hunters. She plans to sell a small spinning wheel, doll bed and dresser, butter churn and a leather seated dining room chair.

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“The smart thing for me to do is part with some of these things now so someone else can appreciate them and my children won’t have to deal with it,” Uber said as she looked for the base to a weather vane with a gold horse.

Uber inherited the “pretty piece” and guesses it is 50-60 years old.

“My husband was a great lover of Irish setters and we have a weather vane with a dog,” she said. “I don’t need two.”

About 20 spaces were rented to antiques dealers and collectors, including a handful of residents from the 0.5-square mile city where about 90 percent of the houses and structures made the National Register of Historic Places.

City Commissioner Frank Rubino is organizing the sale to raise money for Pleasant Ridge’s preservationists to continue refurbishing an old police station that holds a city archive and continue a speakers program about local architecture and tips to take care of older houses.

Some dealers are coming from Ann Arbor but others are based closer to the quaint suburb or have lived there for decades and want to purge their possessions.

“I’ve tried to limit it to only antiques,” Rubino said. “That’s the goal. It’s not a flea market.”

His wife, Peggy, is looking for a good home for a Civil War era setee with mahogany trim that she bought from someone who found it in a barn down south. Rubino changed the worn needlepoint upholstery on the small couch but she kept the original fabric for the next owner.

“I used the setee until I went from Victorian furniture to something more modern,” she said. “It’s in perfect condition. It breaks my heart to sell it. I tried my daughter but she didn’t want her kids to jump on it and my other children aren’t interested.”

The Rubinos also will sell Madame Alexander dolls, lamps, jewelry and some solid brass, electric sconces that are more than a foot long and weigh at least 8 pounds each. Peggy Rubino bought the sconces at a sale in Grosse Pointe.

“I never hung them because we have plaster walls and wormy chestnut walls,” she said, adding that her six-bedroom, four-bathroom house was built as a honeymoon cottage for the daughter of a lumber businessman.

Earlier this year 400 people attended the home and garden tour, riding a trolley to see the landscaped yards and residences built mostly in the 1920s.

Rubino said she hopes the turnout for the antique sale is strong enough to make it an annual event. She said people often show up a day before garage sales to see what residents have out.

“A lot of houses in Pleasant Ridge hold unique things,” Rubino said.

The first antique sale of the Pleasant Ridge Historical Commission takes place Friday through Sunday at the Recreation Center, 4 Ridge Road. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $6 on Friday, when a special preview is set for 6-9 p.m., and $3 on Saturday and Sunday. One admission fee is good for the entire weekend. Sale hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Food will be available for purchase. For more information, call 248-541-2900.